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...Males now make up just 44% of undergraduate students nationwide. And federal projections show their share shrinking to as little as 42% by 2010. This trend is among the hottest topics of debate among college-admissions officers. And some private liberal arts colleges have quietly begun special efforts to recruit men - including admissions preferences for them...
...then to recruit more guys? At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recruiters aggressively tout math and science programs - traditionally popular among male applicants. Chicago's DePaul University (59% female) sends out extra mailings to boys...
...class at Harvard College I was the only member of the Young Communists League," he recalls. "I was called upon by my comrades to recruit other people but could not. I look back with amusement at the notion that somehow the Red tide was rising to dangerous heights at Harvard...
...vote tabulation that could affect the outcome of the election. And among the options given to counties is manually recounting all the ballots. In a county such as Miami-Dade, where 653,963 punch-card ballots were cast, it may not be possible to set up the procedures, recruit the staff and the Republican and Democratic observers, and then complete the painstaking and delicate work of a hand recount within seven days. Harris has no discretion, the Democrats say, to do her job in a way that prevents the counties from fulfilling an obligation imposed on them...
Massachusetts isn't the only state that is making efforts to recruit new teachers. A number of national programs exist that hire college graduates for teaching posts, Rakoff says, including Breakthrough for Learning in New York, Teachers for Chicago and the Mississippi Teacher Corps...